The Lakewood Cultural Center presents The Albers Trio January 21, 2010

Lakewood Cultural Center
Presents

The Albers Trio

From their 2s to their 20s, The Albers Trio has been captivating audiences with musical styles as diverse as their distinctive personalities. The Lakewood Cultural Center presents The Albers Trio at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 21 in the intimate 316-seat theater. Tickets are $26 for adults and are available by calling 303-987-7845, online at www.Lakewood.org/CulturalCenter or at the Lakewood Cultural Center Box Office, 470 S. Allison Parkway (Wadsworth and Alameda). Senior, student and group discounts available. Free parking on-site.

Providing an alternative to the more traditional string quartet format, this string trio program will include Divertimento in E flat major, K. 563 by Mozart, Tathata by Ross Bauer and String Trio in D major, Op. 9 No. 2 by Beethoven. Alfred Einstein said the trio piece was one of Mozart’s noblest works. “Mozart’s E flat major Trio is a true chamber-music work . . . It seems to me that one does not compliment a masterwork like this by saying that it sounds ‘like a quartet.’ Would it be a compliment, then, to say of a quartet that it sounds like a quintet or a symphony? No, it sounds like a trio – like the finest, most perfect trio ever heard.”

Ross Bauer, born in Ithica, New York, in 1951, says of his work: “I regard myself as, in the best sense of the word, a conservative. . .I'm not trying to write music which is self-consciously original, but which comes directly out of the music of the past 250 years. I feel that my work is informed by the full range of American music of the last 50 years or so, but I'd like to think that these diverse influences were absorbed and integrated well enough in order not to stand out.”

Of the Beethoven, biographer Lewis Lockwood notes that “. . . with the three String Trios of Opus 9 we come to a higher level, These three trios are the best of Beethoven's string chamber music before the Opus 18 quartets.” At the time, Beethoven himself declared them “the best of my works.”

Beginning with their childhood performances on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colo., sisters Laura, Rebecca and Julie Albers have gone on to perform at such venues as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, National Theatre in Taipei, Severance Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, and Zankel Hall. Their performances have also been seen and heard on “Live from Lincoln Center,” “Kennedy Center Honors,”Japan’s “NHK,” Washington D.C.’s “Voice of America” and Bavarian Radio. The trio’s Web site is www.alberstrio.com.

Violinist Laura is the associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera. She, as well as her sisters, began studying Suzuki violin with their mother, Ellie LeRoux, at the age of 2. Laura went on to receive her Bachelor and Master of music degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. She has also participated in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Rhode Island’s Newport Music Festival, the Sarasota Opera Festival in Florida and an Orpheus Chamber Orchestra tour.

Violist Rebecca who previously appeared on the Lakewood stage with violinist Mark O’Conner in his Appalachia String Trio program, teaches at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre & Dance in Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor and Master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a student and teaching assistant of Heidi Castleman and Hsin–Yun Huang. As winner of Juilliard’s 2002-03 viola competition, Rebecca made her New York concerto debut performing the New York premiere of Samuel Adler’s Viola Concerto in Alice Tully Hall. She made her European recital debut at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris. Past teachers include Ellie LeRoux and James Maurer.

Cellist Julie has appeared twice as a soloist in recent seasons with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She studied with Richard Aaron at The Cleveland Institute of Music. She made her major orchestral debut at the age of 17 with the Cleveland Orchestra, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. Julie has received various awards including the Grand Prize in South Korea’s Gyeongnam International Music Competition and Second Prize in Munich’s Internationaler Musikwettbewerbes der ARD. In America, in addition to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with the orchestras of Indianapolis, Seattle, Syracuse, San Antonio, Dayton, and San Diego among others.

The Lakewood Cultural Center 2009 - 2010 Performing Arts Season is generously supported by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) – with appreciation to the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District – Aura Spa and Wellness Center at the Sheraton Denver West and The Denver Post.



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